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The Other One

The Other One, published in Puerto del Sol, Spring 2023

A land like spring: an excerpt by Krista Timeus Cerezo

Prologue The first time the guerrilla came to La Aurora, Julia Taube and her father, Franz, were halfway through a simple dinner of black bean stew with rice and tortillas. As the April sky darkened over their plantation’s eight hundred acres of coffee trees, the dim...

The slow ones get caught

Exactly thirty seconds before two o’clock, the assistant professor approaches her classroom armed with two heavy textbooks on the anatomy of the human brain and a stack of handwritten notes for her first lecture. Does anyone know the speed of thought? she will ask the...

Not the best time

“Tell them to take a taxi here,” Anna says to her husband. It’s already, or rather once again, the hottest August on record, and sweat drops are clinging to the skin between her breasts as she moves around the living room of the rented beach house, methodically...